"Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both."

-- Philip Pullman

#Suspense Quotes #Stories Quotes #Love Story Quotes

“On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.”
“I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.”
“It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.”
“Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day”
“Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.”

Source : Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf
“Why did the little girls grow crippled While the little boys grow strong The boys allowed to come of age The girls just came along The girls were told sing harmonies The boys could all sing songs That's why little girls grew crippled While little boys grew strong.”
“I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.”
“I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.”

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